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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. Hello and welcome to

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Speaker 1: The Money Stuff Podcast. You're a weekly podcast. Are you

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Speaker 1: talking about stuff related to money? I'm Matt Levine and

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Speaker 1: I write The Money Stuff com Bloomberg Opinion, and.

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Speaker 2: I'm Katie Greifeld, a reporter for Bloomberg News and an

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Speaker 2: anchor for Bloomberg Television. And today it's a nail back.

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Speaker 2: Dear listeners just keep on sending in questions, and it

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Speaker 2: feels like it's about time. It also helps that I'm

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Speaker 2: on vacation right now. We're recording this in the future.

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Speaker 2: In the past, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm the Sloops.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I am actively skiing right now. Remember we

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Speaker 2: did an episode about cocoa futures.

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Speaker 1: How could I forget?

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Speaker 2: I forgot a little bit, but I was so tickled

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Speaker 2: by this question. Yeah, we did. We talked about Hersheyr.

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Speaker 1: Can I forget? Coming back to me, Matt.

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Speaker 2: We have a question from Patrick, who says, thanks to

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Speaker 2: your podcast, I'm now obsessed with chocolate futures contracts. I

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Speaker 2: have a question about these chocolate warehouses that I just

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Speaker 2: can't understand. Maybe you can help me if they exist

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Speaker 2: to facilitate futures contracts. Why is the quality of the

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Speaker 2: chocolate often bad? I thought futures contracts specified the quality

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Speaker 2: of the chocolate in advance, in terms of origin and grade.

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Speaker 2: Is it not a flaw in the system that worst

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Speaker 2: chocolate is being put in these warehouses? Thanks? I love

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Speaker 2: that questions, good question. I did some Reportingeah, I I

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Speaker 2: went to Bloomberg Intelligence. When I have like a niche

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Speaker 2: question about a topic I know very little about. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to read this out loud. Sure, I got this

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Speaker 2: email and I read it really quickly, so I haven't

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Speaker 2: thought deeply about this. So hello, You're completely right. Contracts

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Speaker 2: would specify the quality and origin of cocoa beans, and

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Speaker 2: this is the reason why cocoa really doesn't have one

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Speaker 2: single price, but several that reflect these differences. So to

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Speaker 2: illustrate this from a higher level perspective, at the end

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Speaker 2: of last year, the ic COO published a report noting

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Speaker 2: that the price difference between London futures and NY was

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Speaker 2: due to London having more beans from Cameroon, which are

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Speaker 2: perceived to be of lower quality. Now, because cocoa is

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Speaker 2: a soft maybe there is some scope for exchanges to

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Speaker 2: hold lower quality or just mismanaged inventories. Don't really know

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Speaker 2: to what extent this is happening. Now, I'll leave a

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Speaker 2: quote quite popular among cocoa market participants. Quote when there

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Speaker 2: is a lot of cocoa, all cocoa is crap. When

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Speaker 2: there is no cocoa, all crap is cocoa. Oh dear,

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Speaker 2: I hadn't read that first. That's really funny. It's all

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Speaker 2: crap is coco. That is so interesting. I guess I

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Speaker 2: haven't really thought about it before that. When you take

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Speaker 2: about the different prices on the different exchanges, I have

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Speaker 2: never thought that maybe the quality in this case of

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Speaker 2: cocoa explains the difference. Yeah, because with oil, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I don't really think about the quality of oil, but

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Speaker 2: it makes sense that there's I don't because I don't

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Speaker 2: think about that, but it makes sense. Yes, true, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Read about this a lot. Like if you're a chocolate maker,

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Speaker 1: you want cocoa to put into chocolate, and like if

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Speaker 1: your a chocolate bars tastes bad, that's bad for you.

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Speaker 1: If you're a commodity's futures warehouse, you need cocoa to

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Speaker 1: like be the underlying deliverable for the commodity future since

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Speaker 1: that most people trading the futures will take delivery of

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Speaker 1: the cocoa, and so there's like a little bit more

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Speaker 1: in the nickel market, Yes there's a warehouse, put nickel

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Speaker 1: you deliver old coffee. But it used to be that

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Speaker 1: so like abstracted that like taking them out and putting

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Speaker 1: is not how like actual coffee brewing works. But for

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Speaker 1: commodities futures. It's fine, it's good enough, and they change

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Speaker 1: I mean yes, like I think coffee. Probably you could go, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know, pretty high standards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, fun you would not drink no commodities futures

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Speaker 2: I mean, if I was dying, that would be kind

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Speaker 1: I think you should do it. So different commodities have

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Speaker 1: different rules, but like in general, like the need to

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Speaker 1: have like the freshest possible commodity, Like you want that

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Speaker 1: for your industrial uses, not for your putting in an

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great question, Patrick, that was That was a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun. Mail bag, mail bag. This question comes from

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Speaker 2: justin straight after my own heart. With the advent of

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Speaker 2: a private credit ETF is an adverse selection and inherent issue.

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Speaker 2: What is to protect the retail investor and prevent the

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Speaker 2: ETF manager from stuffing the fun with the loans it

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Speaker 2: expects to underperform with respect to similar loans from a

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Speaker 2: particular vintage. That is, like the most pessimistic fear here

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Speaker 2: a very reasonable fear, I know, but you would hope

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Speaker 2: that Apollo isn't trying to like use retail as exit

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Speaker 1: I mean, you would hope you hope that all the

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Speaker 1: you try to make only the best loans. It is weird,

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Speaker 1: Your insurance company, your balance sheet? Very smart people run that,

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Speaker 2: I actually did reporting for this question as well. I

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Speaker 2: sat down with Annopoglia from State Street Global Advisors on

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Speaker 2: March thirteenth on Bloomberg Television and I asked her this question,

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Speaker 2: does State Street have the in house expertise to sort

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Speaker 1: That's the sounds a blance right, is like, yeah, the

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Speaker 2: A kind of a I mean, we're recording this in

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Speaker 2: the future, so who knows what it looks like. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we have another question. I don't have a name to

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Speaker 2: because that's what Elon wants. What's the point of digging

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Speaker 2: into anything, Matt, take us into this existential spiral, right.

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Speaker 1: I used to think of my job as like trying

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Speaker 1: which is, yeah, financial assets are valuable not because of

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Speaker 1: Because like there was a time and it's kind of

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Speaker 1: continuing where like Elon would like tweet about a thing

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Speaker 2: So, Bruce, I do want you to keep in touch

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Speaker 2: But also I feel like maybe you'd invest differently if

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Speaker 1: a time, Like you've all this like stuff that a

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Speaker 1: financial advisor does. Yeah, that is useful for you. That

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Speaker 1: is not like here's how much you should have in stocked.

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Speaker 2: I know, but I'm saying it's.

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Speaker 1: The least useful part. Yeah, like no one knows.

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Speaker 2: But like retirement planning, for example, Like it would probably

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Speaker 2: be useful if the financial advisor had a holistic view

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Speaker 2: at all of your portfolios. That's right, Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: And some financial advisors will consider all of your money

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Speaker 1: and providing you that advice, even though not all of

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Speaker 1: it is with them, because like you know, there's like

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Speaker 1: and he's not the only person who like has money elsewhere? Right,

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Speaker 1: and the financial advisor like tries to give you a

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Speaker 1: host of picture and like they'll be mad if like

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Speaker 1: most of your money has elsewhere and they're you're calling

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Speaker 1: them every day, but like it's not like all or

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Speaker 1: nothing true. So I don't know that's the way to

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Speaker 2: Good question, Andy, Good good question.

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Speaker 1: And good answer. Yeah, all the conundrum right now, Like

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Speaker 1: I mean, like there's some minimum that the financial advisor charges,

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Speaker 1: and if you have that minimum with them, you're paying

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Speaker 1: a certain number of thousands of dollars a year for

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Speaker 1: your quarterly zoom call with them. And that's the going

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Speaker 1: rate for financial advice. And if you have one hundred

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Speaker 1: times the minimum with them, then you're paying more. And

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Speaker 1: you could put ninety nine percent of that money into

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Speaker 1: a Vanguard self tractored account and pay less, but like

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Speaker 1: you don't want that, and you're paying for service.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, all right, Well that was our meal

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